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There is so much to unpack in that tirade, Mr. Speaker. I want to remind my hon. colleague across the way that it was the Liberals, under Paul Martin and Jean Chrétien, who cut the health care transfers by 50%. That is part of the reason the Conservative government struggled and increased health care transfers by 3% every year. It invested in health care as no other previous government had. My col…
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Mr. Speaker, Tina went on to say, “I am being impoverished by the NDP and Liberals. I can call and order MAID as a disabled person before I am deemed worthy of being able to afford to live.” I rise today in the chamber to declare what millions of Canadians already know to be true: The Liberal government, led by the Prime Minister, has failed our country. The Prime Minister has failed the Canadian …
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the Prime Minister and the Liberal government, our country is broken. Canadians are struggling more than they have in decades. Our communities, our provinces and our cities look like war zones. We have a Prime Minister who has lost his way. Today, we have more Canadians who are facing homelessness, more Canadians who cannot afford to feed their children and more Ca…
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Mr. Speaker, I find it a little rich that our colleague from the Bloc will stand here and talk about the environment, when his province, in partnership with the Government of Canada and the Prime Minister, dumped billions of litres of raw sewage into rivers. Perhaps the member should ask the Prime Minister's new Quebec lieutenant, the leader of the Bloc Party, if he was allowed to say that.
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Madam Speaker, there we go. There is the leader who has propped up the Prime Minister for the last four and a half years and sided with the government over 50 times when it levied time allocation and closure on bills, silencing the rest of the House. He is the leader who is complicit in the cover-ups and scandals we have seen from the Prime Minister over the last four and a half years. Canadians r…
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Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. You had already mentioned to that colleague that he address, recognize and mention members using their appropriate titles. The “member for Stornoway” is not an appropriate title.
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Madam Speaker, just a few days ago, Quebec Premier François Legault urged the Bloc Québécois to vote with the Conservatives on this confidence motion and send Canadians into a carbon tax election. Why does that member, as well as her leader, disrespect the will and request of the premier of her province, who has said that the Prime Minister and his government disrespect Quebeckers every day?
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Madam Speaker, our leader has stood in the House and answered question after question when it comes to women's reproductive rights. He answered very clearly, with a simple one-word answer, when a member from the NDP asked if he was going to reopen the abortion debate. His answer was no. That is not a half-truth. That is a straightforward answer. The only people talking about this are the Liberals …
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Madam Speaker, there was so much to unpack in that speech, but I will save that for when I get up to speak to the motion. The former Conservative government, led by former prime minister Stephen Harper, as well as our hon. colleague, the member for Abbotsford, signed more free trade agreements than any other government, including the current government. The former Conservative government also put …
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Mr. Speaker, two million Canadians are using a food bank. More Canadians are facing homelessness. We know that more Canadians are about $200 away from being bankrupt at the end of every month. Murders are up 28%. Gang-related murders are up 78%. Assaults are up 75%. Violent crime is up 50% since the Prime Minister came to power. I will end with, again, the fact that over 47,000 Canadians have lost…
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Mr. Speaker, since 2016, over 47,000 Canadians have lost their lives to overdose. Overdose is the leading cause of death for children aged 10 to 18 in my province of British Columbia. The tribal council representing 14 first nations on Vancouver Island has declared a state of emergency over the ongoing opioid and overdose crisis. Under the NDP-Liberal government in Ottawa and the NDP government in…
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Madam Speaker, I wonder how this member is going to reconcile the fact that, for the last nine years, she has propped up one of the most costly and corrupt governments, under her leader and the Liberal leader, the Prime Minister. She is going to have to answer for this on the doorsteps when she goes door to door, asking for votes in what is looking like a Tory seat, coming up. Through you, Madam S…
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Mr. Speaker, as to this point of order, we are all honourable people in this House. How dare our colleague from the Bloc challenge the honour of our colleague here.
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Madam Speaker, it is an honour to rise in the House. It is not my first time rising in the House in this new session, but it is the first time I do so with a lengthy intervention. This is an important debate. I do not think there is a member of Parliament, whether from the Liberal side, the Conservative side, the Bloc side or the NDP side, who can go out into their communities, into their ridings,…
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Mr. Speaker, I listened intently to the hon. member's speech. There were a number of things that resonated with me, but a key one he mentioned was that we need to listen to the people on the ground. We need to listen to the people in our communities. I know that my community, my region of Cariboo—Prince George, has unprecedented levels of homelessness that it did not have nine years ago. I know th…
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Mr. Speaker, I listened intently to the speech of my hon. colleague from the NDP. I found it a little rich, because the NDP has been propping up the government for the last nine years and has been complicit in all of the horrific conditions in our communities. We have a leader, our Conservative leader, who has said that he will axe the tax and make things more affordable for Canadians. He will fix…
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Madam Speaker, the government has continued to funnel billions of dollars to municipal gatekeepers. Municipalities, in turn, have raised the prices on permitting and the length of time to get homes built. Our colleague from the NDP is right. We need more affordable homes. A government led by our hon. colleague, the member for Carleton, would incentivize municipalities to build more affordable home…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, Canada is on track for the worst living standards in 40 years. Now the Prime Minister and his radical finance minister are hiking taxes on farmers to pay for their inflationary spending, all during a food crisis. A new report indicates that the Liberal's job-killing tax hike will cost average farmers 30% more in taxes. Canadians know tha…
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Mr. Speaker, more Canadians are struggling to feed their families, and 25% of Canadians are living in poverty. The Liberals can spin this a hundred different ways, but Canadians know the truth. First, the government punished Canadians with the carbon tax. Now, it is imposing a job-killing tax hike on the people who produce and provide the services we need to survive. The farmers, welders, plumbers…
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Mr. Speaker, it is my favourite time of year. Starting next week, the Cariboo will be home to fast-paced, world-class rodeo action. It's the ropes and the reins, the joy and the pain. It's the bulls and the blood, the dust and the mud. The roar of the Sunday crowd, And the Let R Buck Saloon playing country music just a little too loud. Bucking Bronc Fun under the Hot Quesnel Sun, Whether it is the…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, Canada's opioid and overdose crisis is raging out of control. The Prime Minister's solution to the crisis has been to flood our streets with taxpayer-funded drugs marketed as safe. Now a doctor from London, Ontario, where Canada's first safe supply program started, is sounding the alarm. Dr. Sharon Koivu, who initially supported the prog…
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Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives ask that the motion be adopted on division.
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise and speak to my hon. colleague from Cumberland—Colchester's bill, Bill C-323. In truth, I wish I had another hour to speak to this because I do not believe that we do it justice when we talk a bit about this every so often. However, I will agree with our hon. colleague from Winnipeg North that we have taken significant steps toward combatting mental health and men…
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Mr. Speaker, a new day means a new scandal for the NDP-Liberal government. Shockingly, it does not involve the Prime Minister this time. Reports show that the Liberal employment minister's company, Global Health Imports, is involved in numerous criminal offences, including fraud, arson and wire fraud. Alberta courts have forced GHI to pay out millions and millions of dollars after losing multiple …
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, most young Canadians believe they will never be able to afford a home. Under the Prime Minister, housing prices have doubled. Mortgage payments have doubled. The needed down payment has doubled. This week, Rentals.ca reported that the average rent in Canada has reached over $2,200. This is the most expensive rent we have ever seen. Despi…
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Madam Speaker, it is an honour that I rise today to discuss an issue that is so important, an issue of paramount importance, an issue that cuts to the very heart of our values as a nation, and that is the necessity of clean, safe and reliable drinking water for our first nations communities. It is with this urgency that I address Bill C-61, an act respecting water, source water, drinking water, wa…
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Madam Speaker, the question to my hon. colleague across the way is this: Why did it take nine years to accomplish this? Why did it take first nations' having to take the government to court for it to do anything? We will take no suggestions or advisement from the gentleman across the way on first nations relationships. All we know is that the current government needs to act. Its members need to st…
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Madam Speaker, I apologize to our hon. colleague as I am not sure whether she is asking my point of view or whether she is asking whether the language in the text of the bill is confusing. We do definitely have concerns with some of the language within the bill. These are things I hope our colleagues are able to raise, and I hope they can get amendments at committee.
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Madam Speaker, I did say that. If my hon. colleague wanted to cast aspersions against me and my speech, he should probably have listened to what I had to say to begin with.
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Madam Speaker, if the hon. colleague had been listening to my speech, he would have heard that I said there was enough blame to go around successive governments.
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Madam Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, six British Columbians are dying every day from overdose. Deaths in B.C. are up 380%. Overdose is the leading cause of death for children aged 10 to 18 in B.C. Despite this, the Minister of Mental Health and Addictions claims that B.C.'s radical drug experiment was a success. Was it really? She has even refused to rule out expanding th…
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Mr. Speaker, forgive me if I am wrong, but I do not believe our hon. colleague is in her actual seat.
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The member heckles me and laughs at me right now from down at the far end. Mr. Speaker, I have a great deal of respect for my colleague from New Westminster—Burnaby, and he is a fellow British Columbian. We have worked collaboratively before. At every step of the way, we introduced common-sense amendments. If I may, I will read into the record snippets of a few: “universal, in respect of pharmacar…
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Mr. Speaker, at every step of the way, we asked for clarification from the minister and his charges for definitions and terms that were contained within this four-page document. The member would like to stand up, wildly move his hands, speak very loudly and conflate the issues. This is not universal pharmacare. The Liberals are billing it as some “be-all and end-all”, which it is not. The member k…
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Mr. Speaker, there were 43 amendments. Only an NDP member would say that they worked hard for two years and came up with a four-page document. We had 43 amendments, and for five and a half hours we had to listen to a filibuster, as we are tonight.
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Madam Speaker, I apologize to our hon. colleague. I rise on a point of order. In a debate such as this, there seems to be, according to our constitutional requirements, a lack of quorum.
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Mr. Speaker, that is a little rich from a member who has supported he most costly government in the history of our country at every step of the way. He approved the $61-billion budget that the government announced just recently. At every step of the way, the member has done the bidding of his Liberal coalition. He has covered up scandal after scandal. The member also knows that I stand up for my r…
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Madam Speaker, my hon. colleague has been in this chamber for a very long time and knows that we cannot do indirectly what we cannot do directly. To assert that Conservative members are drinking and coming into the chamber intoxicated is incredibly unparliamentary. I would ask that he withdraw those comments.
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Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to stand here and talk about what is being billed as universal pharmacare but what we know is not universal pharmacare. Before I go down the path of our debate tonight, it is about 5:18 p.m. back home in British Columbia, which would mean that my granddaughter Ren is being picked up from our house. She watches every time I am on, and she always talks to the screen. I a…
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Madam Chair, it is two-thirds. Does the minister think violence in the workplace is acceptable?
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Madam Chair, can the minister tell the House how many days it has been since Bill C-321 was unanimously passed by the House of Commons?
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Madam Chair, is the minister aware that my bill, Bill C-321, is a direct result of the 2019 HESA recommendations on workplace violence?
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Madam Chair, has the government targeted any funding for workplace violence prevention in health care?
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Madam Chair, does the minister know how many of the recommendations have been acted on by her government?
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Madam Chair, has the minister read the recommendations of the 2019 HESA report on violence facing health care workers in Canada?
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Madam Chair, it is 84%. How many health care workers reported mental health issues last year?
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Madam Chair, can the minister tell us what she has done to ensure that Bill C-321 passes in the Senate quickly?
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Madam Chair, my bill would make it an aggravating factor during sentencing if the victim of an assault is a nurse or first responder. Can the minister tell this House what actions she can take to pass Bill C-321 today, tomorrow or anytime?
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Madam Chair, I did ask how much money was in budget 2024 with respect to violence in the workplace.
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Madam Chair, to the Minister of Health, would Bill C-64 provide for government-funded heart medications?
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